The Doctor From Gallifrey 

After some rumours, it has now been confirmed that award-winning children's novelist and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce is the final writer for Doctor Who Series 8. The episode will feature a cast of child actors including Harley Bird (the voice of Peppa Pig), alongside Abigail Eames (Harry And Paul, The Crimson Field), Ashley Foster (The Woman In Black) and Jaydon Harris-Wallace (CITV Text Santa).

Boyce said:“Of all the thrills that pen and paper have brought into my life, there’s nothing that quite compares to the buzz of unlimited possibility that rushes through your fingers and into your brain when you write the words: ‘Interior … TARDIS’.”

“I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I’ve been so absorbed in the last few series that I’d sort of forgotten that it wasn’t real.”

[Source: BBC Media Centre]

Some exciting news about episode 12 of the new series from the BBC today as filming for the episode took place on the streets of Cardiff. First of all is the news that Michelle Gomez (Bad Education) will guest star in the episode, playing the Gatekeeper of the Nethersphere. Showrunner Steven Moffat is pleased about the casting and said: "I've known Michelle for years, and I'm thrilled to welcome her to Doctor Who. She's everything we need - brilliant, Scottish, and a tiny bit satanic." 

The BBC then revealed this shot from filming which sees the return of a classic Doctor Who monster, the cybermen! 

And as if this wasn't exciting enough there's a little bit more casting news, although this comes from people at the scene rather than from the BBC. Jemma Redgrave and Ingrid Oliver will reprise their roles from The Day of the Doctor, playing Kate Stewart and Osgood respectively.

Series 8 of Doctor Who, starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor and Jenna Coleman as companion Clara Oswald, will start airing on BBC One and BBC America from Saturday 23rd August. The first episode will be "feature-length" and is called "Deep Breath". Along with the announcement came a new image (below) and a new teaser trailer. 

Unusually we have some unofficial casting news from filming. The Doctor Who crew were filming at Maelfa Shopping Centre in Llanedryn, Cardiff today. The scene featured Jenna Coleman and a group of community playback people. Wales Online confirmed that star of E4's "Youngers" Jovian Wade was one of them. Twitter user Colin Waymark also spotted Christopher Fairbank (below) who is best known for his role in "Auf Weidersen, Pet" and Matt Bardock who plays paramedic Jeff in "Casualty". 

(Christopher Fairbank)

It is not known which episode of the series these actors will feature in but it is thought to be Episode 9.

[Source: Wales Online and @colseywolsey]

The synopses for the first three New Series Adventures novels featuring Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor have been revealed. All three will be released on the 11th September 2014. Details below:

Silhouette by Justin Richards

“Vastra and Strax and Jenny? Oh no, we don’t need to bother them. Trust me.”

Marlowe Hapworth is found dead in his locked study, killed by an unknown assailant. This is a case for the Great Detective, Madame Vastra.

Rick Bellamy, bare-knuckle boxer, has the life drawn out of him by a figure dressed as an undertaker. This angers Strax the Sontaran.

The Carnival of Curiosities, a collection of bizarre and fascinating sideshows and performers. This is where Jenny Flint looks for answers.

How are these things connected? And what does Orestes Milton, rich industrialist, have to do with it all? As the Doctor and Clara joint the hunt for the truth they find themselves thrust into a world where nothing and no one are what they seem.

The Blood Cell by James Goss

“Release the Doctor – or the killing will start.”

An asteroid in the furthest reaches of space – the most secure prison for the most dangerous of criminals. The Governor is responsible for the cruellest murderers. So he’s not impressed by the arrival of the man they’re calling the most dangerous criminal in the quadrant. Or, as he prefers to be known, the Doctor.

But when the new prisoner immediately sets about trying to escape, and keeps trying, the Governor sets out to find out why.

Who is the Doctor and what’s he really doing here? And who is the young woman who comes every day to visit him, only to be turned away by the guards?

When the killing finally starts, the Governor begins to get his answers…

 The Crawling Terror by Mike Tucker

“Well, I doubt you’ll ever see a bigger insect.”

Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. ‘Mummy there’s a daddy longlegs in my room!’ Then the screaming starts… Kevin Alperton is on his way to school when he is attacked by a mosquito. A big one. Then things get dangerous.

But it isn’t the dead man cocooned inside a huge mass of web that worries the Doctor. It isn’t the swarming, mutated insects that make him nervous.

With the village cut off from the outside world, and the insects becoming more and more dangerous, the Doctor knows that unless he can decode the strange symbols engraved on an ancient stone circle, and unravel a mystery dating back to the Second World War, no one is safe.

Just like the Doctor regenerated on Christmas Day, we've regenerated too! Nothing has happened on the site for a while and with Series 8 quickly approaching, led by Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, we thought we should get things going again, this time for good. We've streamlined the site and worked on updating our social media profiles. The best places to follow what is happening on the site is through these lovely looking profiles, which are linked below. 

Keep your eyes peeled as we begin to update the news page with the latest news, add trailers to the trailers page and very soon we'll have a page which is a guide to everything we know about Series 8 so far. Do give us a follow on one or several of the links below and we hope to see you back very soon!

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The first details of casting for the 90 minute Mark Gatiss penned "genesis of Doctor Who" drama An Adventure in Space and Time have been announced: 

• David Bradley (Soloman in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship) will play William Hartnell
• Brain Cox (The Bourne films) will play Sydney Newman, BBC's Head of Drama
• Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife) will play Verity Lambert, the show's producer
• Sacha Dhawan (History Boys) will play Waris Hussein, directer of the first episode. 

The date for the return of Doctor Who and the return of Series 7 has been announced! The 8 episode run begins on Easter Saturday, Saturday 30th March! 

You can find out more about the episode to come on our series 7 page!

[Source: BBC Doctor Who]

More details on the Doctor Who episodes airing in 2013 were revealed at the Toy Fair in London. They were as follows: 

• Series 7 Part 2 (8 Episodes / Spring 2013)
• 50th Anniversary Special (1 x 60 minutes / Autumn 2013)
• An Adventure in Space and Time (1 x 90 minutes / Autumn 2013)
• Doctor Who Revisited (11 x 25 minutes / throughout year)

Freema Agyeman has ruled out a return to Doctor Who for the 50th Anniversary special. 

In an interview with Crave Online she said: "I'm doing two things for the 50th but nothing to do with being in the drama. I got misquoted hideously once saying that there are some rumblings going on about being involved in the 50th in terms of the drama. It's not. It's in terms of conventions and interviews and things like that, which we're all doing stuff to promote the 50th. We have to. It's the Doctor Who family and we want to." 

So there you have it, no Martha for the 50th Anniversary special. Which we can't say is a huge surprise, we think it's unlikely that companions will come back, although there's still a chance of a Multi-Doctor episode! 

[Source: Digital Spy]